desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator
that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.
she is absolutely a victim, in show.
that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.
she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.
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“alicent making homophobic remarks the night of laena’s funeral isn’t cool considering laenor was shown to be heavily grieving his sister and didn’t deserve to be attacked during it (not to mention it was an obvious ploy on alicent’s part to divert attention from her committing literal treason).”
“b-bUT WHAT ABOUT DAEMON AND RHAENYRA FUCKING-“
i’m not gonna lie i don’t particularly care that they had sex that night. was it disrespectful? for sure. did it harm anyone for them to do it? it, in fact, did not. two consenting adults having sex away from prying eyes and keeping to themselves < an entitled boy purposely calling a girl at her mother’s funeral (whom he had never interacted with before) a pig and ridiculing her grief. laena’s storyline was cut short because the writers decided she wasn’t important enough to make into a proper character that isn’t at the mercy of other characters (it’s something i’m forever going to be salty about, daemon and rhaenyra loved her with all their hearts and were absolutely devastated when she passed) but out of those two scenarios who do you think she would be more upset with?
the people who bring this up in retaliation cannot handle alicent taking any criticism whatsoever. in all honesty i wouldn’t even care if her fans would just say ‘yeah, it was shitty. don’t really care though.’ it would at least save me the time of reading think piece after think piece on why alicent deserved to get her lick back against rhaenyra for her lot in life (caused by otto and viserys) by focusing on her pain rather than her son’s. these are the same people who try to claim that most of rhaenyra’s children and step children secretly hate her, due to wanting ‘complex and nuanced relationships’ to occur (they actually also can’t handle that rhaenyra was a great mom all around to all of her kids, and that maybe they need to be focusing those feelings on the green kids with their parents instead). let’s be serious for just one moment: it makes more sense that the children who were neglected by one parent and abused by the other having complicated familial feelings than children who were (for the most part) raised in a relatively stable and loving environment.
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do we really think that Geneviève 'the pronoun on is stupid' d'Eon would be super stoked about people using they/them pronouns for her
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I am in no way the first person to make this observation, but it’s very obvious why Spock and McCoy’s dynamic works (without making the audience hate one of them), where Data and Pulaski’s doesn’t.
Apart from the fact that, at the beginning of TOS, Spock and Bones have already been working together and built the rapport they have over time, where as Pulaski is a newcomer on the Enterprise, and the first thing she does to one of her new coworkers is treat him like an object and question his ability to do his job.
But beyond that, the very base difference? Spock fights back. He doesn’t always, but he’s perfectly comfortable and capable of giving as good as he gets.
With Data and Pulaski, you’ve got a woman being needlessly cruel to a coworker whom she doesn’t know particularly well and whom is too polite to respond in kind, or sometimes doesn’t even understand that he’s being slighted. Data is too nice of a person for this dynamic to have ever worked in any way other than to make the audience dislike Pulaski.
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A reminder that this is Meghan. She has shown time and time her true character and her heart. A loving, supportive wife and someone who looks for the good, who connects with people and makes them feel seen, with kindness and compassion and grace.
This is Meghan. She's shown this then, now and always. She knows her heart and her worth, and so does Harry. Believe her actions not the media's words.
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